Life — December 23, 1920 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 1175 **Main Article: "Cultivating Originality"** This essay discusses how dramatic arts students and playwrights should develop freshness and strength through observation rather than imitation. It critiques the tendency to use the word "some" in plays and argues that artists must find their own voice. **"The Worm Turns" Comic Strip** A four-panel sequence showing two men in formal attire. The humor appears to play on a reversal of power dynamics: the first man shows off an airplane loop; the second man watches; in the third panel he's out of sight; in the final panel, he's exuberantly celebrating, claiming credit ("My old Ingersoll for a diamond pin!"). The joke suggests the initially confident man has been outwitted or upstaged by his companion—hence "the worm turns" (the meek person finally gets revenge).